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title: It certainly has not yet withered; but in the course of years the nu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It certainly has not yet withered; but in the course of years the number of blossoms from time to time will grow less, and at last it was cease altogether to bear fruit; and then its history will be over." Who acts: number, hedge, history. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, sentence 173

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It certainly has not yet withered; but in the course of years the number of blossoms from time to time will grow less, and at last it was cease altogether to bear fruit; and then its history will be over."

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**Who acts:** number, hedge, history · **What happens:** not wither, grow, be, bear · **To what, where:** hedge, course, last cease, fruit

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Bachelor's Nightcap. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number, hedge, history), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:128:173
# text = It certainly has not yet withered; but in the course of years the number of blossoms from time to time will grow less, and at last it was cease altogether to bear fruit; and then its history will be over."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
24	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	cease	cease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	parataxis	_	_
32	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	_
35	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	43	advmod	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
41	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
42	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
43	over	over	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **wither** | present · perfect · passive |  | hedge |  |  | yet | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | future | the number of blossoms from time to time |  |  | the course of years |  | less *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in course=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | hedge | last cease |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bear** | to-infinitive | the number of blossoms from time to time *not said here* | fruit |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | future | hedge's history |  |  |  | then | over *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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